| Autor: |
Kaufmann, Robert L., Parcel, Toby L., Wallace, Michael, Form, William |
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Research in the Sociology of Work; 1988, Vol. 4, p31-67, 37p |
| Abstrakt: |
The article focuses on the effect of organizational and technological change in an ultra-high-technological firm. The laboratory of the industrial sociologist is undergoing a radical transformation. The decline of the manufacturing-blue collar sector and the rise in the importance of white-collar work is the most notable change in the American occupational structure in the last forty years. More recently, the emergence of high-technology applications in both blue collar and white-collar settings has given a new urgency to some longstanding issues in industrial sociology. High-tech work provides a challenging research setting to investigate these and related issues in the American work place. But the term high tech has taken on many meanings, some inconsistent with each other. High tech may refer to the nature of the product being produced, the nature of the work process itself, or both. The term high tech may take on vastly different connotations in the blue collar and white-collar settings. Some might be tempted to invoke high tech only when they observe certain anticipated changes in the work process such as skill upgrading, enlargement of responsibility and the like. |
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Complementary Index |
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